How Lawrence Defeated the Turks in Arabia

Unfortunately the goodness of this story came to an end with the Arabs being ultimately betrayed, with English and French bureaucrats drawing arbitrary lines on a map under the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. This secret treaty between France and Great Britain with its arbitrary (and uninformed) lines on the map set the stage for conflict lasting more than a century. The Arabs were not given the independence they were promised, and many peoples, especially the Kurds, were arbitrarily separated by the ill-informed boundaries which divided the Mid-East into British and French spheres of influence.

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - Thank you for that. So many folks do not know that history which has influenced modern times so much.

SGT Mary G. - You're welcome. My specialty is Russian History but along the way I've learned a bit about other regions as well. And the Russians have always been interested in the Middle East and Asia.

That it did.

Indeed, it did Ma'am.